Learn Your Damn Homophones

xoxoxoBruce · 12-29-2009, 07:30 PM

Learn your damn homophones.
Affect
Your horrendous grammar affects the quality of your input as an interlocutor.
Effect
Your grammar’s effects are so unspeakable that you should be prosecuted at The Hague.

Capital
Capital punishment should be applied to people who use improper grammar.
Capitol
Improper grammar is not allowed inside the capitol.

Discreet
If you can’t discern the difference between homophones, then be discreet.
Discrete
There is a discrete difference between someone who knows homophones and someone who does not.

and many, many, more.

lumberjim · 12-29-2009, 11:01 PM

count down to the
Learn your Damn Homophobes clone thread.....

3....2.....1....

footfootfoot · 12-29-2009, 11:14 PM

Homophones:

Sundae · 12-30-2009, 04:53 AM

If you're sticking a penis in your ear, you're doing it wrong.

footfootfoot · 12-30-2009, 10:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

If you're sticking a penis in your ear, you're doing it wrong.

Whadda I know from homophones?

Urbane Guerrilla · 01-05-2010, 11:25 AM

Of yore I knew the difference between your and you're. I vividly remember the results from one fellow who didn't, and split the difference with Y O U apostrophe R. It wasn't even a typo; it was intended as the possessive, and on a hand-lettered sign.

Decent training in the language would fix this in all but the most thickheaded. It did so in my day.

monster · 01-05-2010, 12:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Urban Gorilla

Of yore I knew the difference between your and you're. I vividly remember the results from one fellow who didn't, and split the difference with Y O U apostrophe R. It wasn't even a typo; it was intended as the possessive, and on a hand-lettered sign.

Decent training in the language would fix this in all but the most thickheaded. It did so in my day.

Carruthers · 01-05-2010, 12:57 PM

Variations on apostrophe catastrophes............

There was a road sign not too far from here giving directions to 'St. Mary,s Church & Centre'.

Also, a local company had its entire fleet of vans emblazoned 'Robinson,s'*. The proprietor was a deeply unpleasant man and deserved the ridicule. Having said that, most people probably thought it was grammatically correct.

E & OE

Carruthers

PS * The name has been changed to protect the guilty.

12-29-2009, 07:30 PM	#1
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Learn Your Damn Homophones Learn your damn homophones. Affect Your horrendous grammar affects the quality of your input as an interlocutor. Effect Your grammar’s effects are so unspeakable that you should be prosecuted at The Hague. Capital Capital punishment should be applied to people who use improper grammar. Capitol Improper grammar is not allowed inside the capitol. Discreet If you can’t discern the difference between homophones, then be discreet. Discrete There is a discrete difference between someone who knows homophones and someone who does not. and many, many, more. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

12-29-2009, 11:01 PM	#2
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	count down to the Learn your Damn Homophobes clone thread..... 3....2.....1.... __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

12-29-2009, 11:14 PM	#3
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	Homophones: Attached Images __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

12-30-2009, 04:53 AM	#4
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	If you're sticking a penis in your ear, you're doing it wrong. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

01-05-2010, 11:25 AM	#6
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Of yore I knew the difference between your and you're. I vividly remember the results from one fellow who didn't, and split the difference with Y O U apostrophe R. It wasn't even a typo; it was intended as the possessive, and on a hand-lettered sign. Decent training in the language would fix this in all but the most thickheaded. It did so in my day. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

01-05-2010, 12:57 PM	#8
Carruthers Junior Master Dwellar Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Buckinghamshire UK Posts: 4,059	Variations on apostrophe catastrophes............ There was a road sign not too far from here giving directions to 'St. Mary,s Church & Centre'. Also, a local company had its entire fleet of vans emblazoned 'Robinson,s'. The proprietor was a deeply unpleasant man and deserved the ridicule. Having said that, most people probably thought it was grammatically correct. E & OE Carruthers PS The name has been changed to protect the guilty.

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